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U.S. Passport Renewal (By Mail)

The XPack 500 next to a B5 envelope with my old passport and a very expensive money order.Last year, my husband went through a panic when his passport had expired just before he planned to go home for a visit so this year, I was keeping an eye on my... ...full story at So-Called Japanese Life

from So-Called Japanese Life on Wed, Jan 09 2008

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10 Jun 08 visit Lady Hannah Tokyo Pt2  »  YouTube videoI pay a visit to the City Hall's Foreign Resident Subsection for a passport photo to get my alien registration card so I can get a mobile phone
25 Jul 08 visit My new passport  »  Loulogue I got a call from the Dutch consulate the other day telling me my new passport is waiting for me! So today Yasu and I went to fetch it today. The new passport doesn’t look so different from my old one, except the new picture and new expiration date ...
26 Jul 08 visit Forgetting a passport in China  »  Japan Times It was with amazement that I read Dierk Brockschmidt's July 17 letter, "Three days in the Hakodate jail." Brockschmidt was imprisoned for that length of time for not producing an original copy of his passport, although he did have copies. We hear...
03 Jul 08 visit World › Passport snooping more widespread than thought in U.S.  »  Japan Today An internal State Department investigative report suggests that employees may have been snooping on the passport records of celebrities far more than previously disclosed and…
04 Jan 08 visit Investment fraud suspect held over fictitious passport  »  Japan Times The head of a Tokyo-based company that allegedly bilked some 40,000 investors out of a combined ¥60 billion in a Philippine shrimp-farming fraud has been arrested for passport violations, police... Read more . . .
23 Sep 08 visit Quick stop at Osaka immigration  »  Loulogue I’ve been dreading going to the immigration office in Osaka for weeks, ever since I picked up my new passport at the Dutch consulate. As nobody gave me any deadline for transferring my visa to my new passport, I decided to go there after Obon. I ju...

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